A former high-profile DMP Detective Branch official discussed through protest-period policing controversy, anti-corruption investigation reporting, and administrative suspension records.
Aliases: Harun or Rashid, DB Harun, Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid
The Daily Star · 31 Jul 2024
Report identifying Harun Or Rashid as a DMP Detective Branch official and describing his transfer to the crime and operations department after quota-protest related controversy.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 18 Aug 2024
Report that the Anti-Corruption Commission initiated an investigation against Harun Or Rashid over allegations of acquiring illegal wealth through irregularities and corruption.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 24 Oct 2024
Report that the ACC summoned Harun Or Rashid, former DMP Detective Branch chief, to appear regarding allegations of acquiring assets beyond known income through irregularities and corruption.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 21 Oct 2024
Report that the Central Intelligence Cell of the National Board of Revenue sent account-freeze letters to banks and financial institutions concerning Harun Or Rashid and family members.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 8 Jan 2025
Court report that a Dhaka court ordered the ACC to seize income-tax documents in connection with corruption cases and applications alleging illegal wealth.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 18 Aug 2025
Report that the government suspended Harun Or Rashid and other police officers on desertion charges under the Government Servants discipline rules.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 21 Aug 2024
Report on ACC-source discussion of investigations into former and current police officials, naming several senior police figures in post-transition accountability context.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 2 Sep 2025
Report on former IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun's ICT testimony naming political and security figures in alleged July-uprising crackdown decision-making.
View sourceThe Business Standard · 27 Jul 2026
The report says ICT-2 took cognisance of formal charges against Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over the 2013 Hefazat rally and reported prosecution claims concerning 58 deaths.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 27 Jul 2026
BSS reports that ICT-2 took cognisance of the formal charge over the May 5, 2013 crackdown and ordered accused in custody to be produced while warrants remained outstanding for absconding accused.
View sourcebdnews24.com · 27 Jul 2026
The report describes the complaint filed in 2024, the tribunal's acceptance of charges in 2026, 31 absconding warrants, and competing prosecution accounts of the death toll.
View sourceThe Daily Star · 12 Mar 2025
The Daily Star reports arrest and production warrants in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and attributes allegations about planning and responsibility to the prosecution.
View sourceBangladesh Sangbad Sangstha · 24 Aug 2025
BSS reports an ICT order permitting interrogation of several accused in the Shapla Chattar proceeding and describes the complaint brought on behalf of Hefazat leaders.
View sourceHuman Rights Watch · 1 Aug 2013
Human Rights Watch documented the 2013 protest violence through interviews and described the casualty and force accounts as contested and requiring independent investigation.
View sourceOdhikar, reported by Dhaka Tribune · 15 May 2013
The report attributes a total of 61 deaths to Odhikar's account of the May 2013 operation; this figure is presented as a rights-group claim rather than an established judicial finding.
View sourceIncluded because public reporting documents his former DB leadership role, transfer after quota-protest controversy, ACC investigation and summons over corruption allegations, account-freeze reporting, court seizure orders, and later suspension on desertion charges.
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Reported themes: DMP Detective Branch leadership, quota-protest detention controversy, ACC investigation over alleged illegal wealth, account-freeze reporting, income-tax-document seizure orders, and administrative suspension.
The public-interest value is understanding how power in state institutions, policing, media, urban governance, or finance is discussed in records.
Daily Star reports identify Harun Or Rashid as a former head of DMP's Detective Branch. The record should be read as public-role, investigation, summons, court-order, and administrative-status reporting. Allegations of illegal wealth or abuse of power are not presented here as final findings unless supported by a later court or official outcome.
Next steps should model each claim, case, court order, response, or correction as a separate structured record.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE · OFFICIALLY INVESTIGATED
Rights groups, human-rights reporting, and later ICT proceedings present differing accounts of the May 5-6, 2013 operation, casualties, and use of state force around the Hefazat rally.
CROSS CHECKED
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN · 2013-05-05 2013-05-06
A record of the May 5-6, 2013 rally and operation around Motijheel's Shapla Chattar, competing casualty accounts, and later ICT proceedings.
Casualty counts vary substantially by source: 2026 tribunal reporting refers to a prosecution account of 58 deaths, a 2013 rights report attributed 61 deaths to Odhikar, and contemporary reporting also described a lower government count. None should be presented as a final judicial finding.
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